You're not exactly honest because you're comparing a somewhat-formatted Smalltalk function call with a function call in LISP containing only semantically meaningful whitespace. From the little experience with LISP I have, the code formatting maintained by every half-witted text editor for LISP files is more than sufficient to maintain clarity.In the end, it all boils down to whether or not you like braces and RPN (which, frankly, makes a lot of sense, especially for more complicated expressions).

Moreover, Common Lisp has a solid and easy to use OO system called CLOS, which is really an ANSI-specified fundamental part of the language.The common consensus is that CL is a multiparadigm and not a functional language.

I know that your past experiments with LISP (n years ago) might have left a bad taste.. but really, do yourself a favor and check out Common Lisp :) (A great free book called "Practical Common Lisp" can be found here (http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book).

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How fresh, how calm, stiller than this of course, the air was in the early morning; like the flap of a wave; the kiss of a wave; chill and sharp and yet (for a girl of eighteen as she then was) solemn, feeling as she did, standing there at the open window, that something awful was about to happen; looking at the flowers, at the trees with the smoke winding off them and the rooks rising, falling; standing and looking until Peter Walsh said, "Musing among the vegetables?" — was that it? — "I prefer men to cauliflowers" — was that it? He must have said it at breakfast one morning when she had gone out on to the terrace — Peter Walsh. He would be back from India one of these days, June or July, she forgot which, for his letters were awfully dull; it was his sayings one remembered; his eyes, his pocket-knife, his smile, his grumpiness and, when millions of things had utterly vanished-how strange it was! — a few sayings like this about cabbages.